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Old 16th Mar 2014, 11:20
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expatfrance
 
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RIP to all the guys.

Having survived for more than 40 years of flying helis, I can only agree with the relatively few who say you need to say NO on occasions and make sure that the owners know that. I have worked for a company Shy has and was given the CP job after everyone else left. I had to start from scratch and the basic was explaining to the owner why everyone had left. Whilst he did not like it he eventually agreed and life, I think, improved for all. We used to fly in some awful weather but having written an ops manual which the boss accepted, we were able to achieve about 95% without incident. I left him in no doubt who had the last say! Corporate flying is good and rewarding as long it is safe. I worked on the principal there was only one person who had to survive and that was me, after which everyone else should be ok.
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